Lou Agosta received his PhD from the UChicago Philosophy Department writing a thesis entitled Empathy and Interpretation with a committee of Stephen Toulmin, Paul Ricoeur, and Bill Wimsatt. Lou's latest publication is entitled Empathy in the Context of Philosophy, published by Palgrave Macmillan (2010). Lou's current project is creating and implementing the possibility of empathy in a variety of contexts. Lou taught philosophy for nine years at Loyola University, DePaul University, Roosevelt University, St. Xavier College, Oakton Community College. He then decided that he would get more results finding the love of his life - a wife - if he had more money. He took two classes in computer programming, and working as a systems analyst for many years. After writing a book on databases (The Essential Guide to Data Warehousing (Prentice Hall)), he became an "industry analyst" for Giga Information Group, providing Fortune 500 clients with analysis and trends in information technology and business. When IBM eliminated Lou's job in 2008, he wrote the above cited book (Empathy in the Context of Philosophy (Palgrave Macmillan 2010)). There are currently (2010) two unpublished volumes in the series. He was most recently (Q2 2010) accepted as a candidate at the Chicago Institute for Psychoanalysis and is completely prerequisites at Rush University Medical College in Diagnostic Interviewing, Group Dynamics, and Psychopharmacology for non-MDs. Other publications include:

“Heidegger’s 1924 Clearing of the Affects in Aristotle’s Rhetoric, Book II,” Philosophy Today, November 2010.

Empathy in the Context of Philosophy
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A substantial amount of research has been devoted to the concept of empathy. However, empathy remains controversial, under-theorized, and subject to conflicting and opportunistic uses. Its systematic role in human experience has not been analyzed and...

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